June 14, 2000
Riady a target of Justice probe?
Censored parts of Freeh, LaBella memos
indicate Lippo chief under investigation
By Paul Sperry
� 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON -- Indonesian billionaire James Riady, the shadowy
Clinton-Gore fund-raiser who's stayed clear of the U.S. since the
Chinagate scandal broke three-and-a-half years ago, may finally
be under Justice Department investigation, investigators say.
Sources with knowledge of censored parts of recently released FBI
and Justice reports say Riady is a target of the campaign-finance
task force.
"We wouldn't confirm or deny it," Justice spokesman John Russell
told WorldNetDaily.
Russell declined to say if a warrant has been issued for Riady,
reportedly in Jakarta, or if a special federal grand jury has
been sworn in to hear such a case.
Riady runs the Beijing-tied Lippo Group conglomerate. He and his
father, China-born Mochtar Riady, reportedly have some $8 billion
invested in mainland China ventures, including ones with ties to
Chinese army intelligence. Much of the illegal foreign money that
poured into '96 Clinton-Gore coffers was laundered through
conduits tied to Lippo and Beijing sources.
On March 24, before turning two long-sought, sensitive memos over
to Congress, Justice says it redacted, or edited out, names and
sections of the documents to protect ongoing investigations. The
so-called "Freeh memo" runs 27 pages; the "LaBella memo," 94.
Many of the redacted parts refer to Pauline Kanchanalak,
knowledgeable sources say, a major Democratic National Committee
fund-raiser with ties to the White House and Beijing. She awaits
trial on charges she defrauded the Federal Election Commission in
the '96 presidential campaign.
But other redacted passages in both the Freeh and LaBella reports
refer to either James Riady or both Riadys, sources say.
Attorney General Janet Reno, criticized for conducting a flaccid
probe of White House allegations, came under more pressure early
this year when Congress revealed that her task force prosecutors
failed to ask President Clinton about his ties to Riady during
interviews.
It's not clear what prosecutable offenses, if any, would result
from an investigation of Riady.
But Riady's man in the U.S., John Huang, coughed up some clues in
recently released transcripts of FBI interviews with him and in
recent congressional testimony after being granted immunity.
Huang last year pleaded guilty to one fund-raising felony.
He confessed to FBI agents that his former boss (who still
bankrolled him during his probe) was the mastermind behind a plot
to raise $1 million starting with the '92 Clinton-Gore campaign.
The illegal scheme involved funneling foreign cash to
Clinton-Gore through Lippo employees and other straw donors.
Huang, also born in China, says that Riady told Clinton of the
plan during an August 1992 limousine ride after a California
fund-raiser. Asked how Clinton reacted, Huang would only tell
agents that Clinton never discouraged Riady.
Huang also revealed that Riady and he coordinated their
fund-raising activities with another convicted Clinton-Gore
fund-raiser, Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie.
They used Trie's Watergate apartment as a kind of staging ground
for their shady operation. It was the first serious information
gleaned that Huang and Riady conspired with Trie, another old
friend of Clinton's from Arkansas.
Despite a plea deal that earned him no jail time and immunity
from prosecution for espionage, Huang has refused to implicate
Clinton or other White House, or DNC, officials in his criminal
conspiracy.
After a late 1995 White House meeting with Riady, Clinton
installed Huang, his "good friend" for some 20 years, as DNC vice
chairman. (Huang's fund-raising for Vice President Al Gore goes
back to Gore's Senate days, and may go back to his days as a
congressman, during which time Huang was living in Tennessee and
wining and dining Chinese officials on behalf of a bank there.)
"In mid-September [1995], Huang and the [Riadys] met with
President Clinton and (top aide) Bruce Lindsey at the White
House," the July 16, 1998, LaBella task force memo states. "It
was during this meeting that Huang's desire to leave Commerce and
to begin work for the DNC was expressed."
The memo adds, "In fact, it was [Riady] who underscored for the
president that Huang's talents were being wasted at Commerce and
should be utilized in some other way."
In 1995, Huang had been working in the Commerce Department, where
he had regular access to classified CIA briefings (while there,
he saw as many as 550 separate pieces of mostly raw
intelligence). Huang paid several visits to the Chinese Embassy
during his 1994-1995 Commerce tenure.
Both the FBI and the CIA suspect Mochtar Riady (who despite his
Muslim name, is ethnic Chinese) and his son James Riady are
Chinese agents. Huang has denied spying directly or indirectly
for communist China.
"Huang is closely tied to the [Riadys] and the Lippo Group, which
has substantial connections to the Chinese government," states
the Nov. 24, 1997, memo from FBI Director Louis Freeh to Reno.
In recent years Riady has lain low, but not so low that he
doesn't still stay in contact with his old pal Clinton.
In September, during a trip in which he met with Chinese
President Jiang Zemin, Clinton also met with Riady in New
Zealand. But they didn't discuss anything "sensitive," the White
House promised.
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